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06 997 starter weirdness

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YOUR RESEARCH06 997 starter weirdness

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starter spinning, yet the solenoid bendix was not engaged/ing

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Reported cause · Original poster
The noise turned out to be the starter spinning, yet the solenoid Bendix was not engaged/ing!
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06 997 starter weirdness

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Check relays and even

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UPDATE, checked the relays and even with starter relay pulled, the starter is spinning.
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Leading evidence: 'starter spinning, yet the solenoid bendix was not engaged/ing' (1 discussions report identifying this cause; no attributable repair resolution). Across 1 matching discussions, the most frequently mentioned possible cause is 'starter spinning, yet the solenoid bendix was not engaged/ing' (1 discussions; 1 report identifying it and 0 suggest it). The most frequently discussed action is 'Check relays and even' (1 discussions). For that action, 0 discussions report a resolution and 0 report an unsuccessful attempt. No action has an explicit, attributable resolution report under the current rules. These are forum reports and suggestions, not a confirmed diagnosis.

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Check relays and even

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Performed · outcome unconfirmed · Original poster
UPDATE, checked the relays and even with starter relay pulled, the starter is spinning.
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06 997 starter weirdness

Disconnect noise stopped

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Performed · outcome unconfirmed · Original poster
To keep the battery from draining it was disconnected, noise stopped.
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06 997 starter weirdness

Reconnect (no key in the ignition) the whirring noise returned

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Performed · outcome unconfirmed · Original poster
We reinstalled the starter and as soon as the battery was reconnected, (no key in the ignition) the whirring noise returned.
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06 997 starter weirdness

Replace main positive line

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Performed · outcome unconfirmed · Original poster
He went down a rabbit hole and ended up replacing the main positive line from the battery to the starter/alt.
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06 997 starter weirdness

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Check relays and even

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Performed · outcome unconfirmed · Original poster
UPDATE, checked the relays and even with starter relay pulled, the starter is spinning.
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06 997 starter weirdness

Disconnect noise stopped

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Performed · outcome unconfirmed · Original poster
To keep the battery from draining it was disconnected, noise stopped.
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06 997 starter weirdness

Reconnect (no key in the ignition) the whirring noise returned

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Unsuccessful attempts: 1
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Performed · outcome unconfirmed · Original poster
We reinstalled the starter and as soon as the battery was reconnected, (no key in the ignition) the whirring noise returned.
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06 997 starter weirdness

Reconnect battery

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Suggestion · Original poster
For information sake, we reconnect the battery, with ignition switch uninstalled and the starter beginning spinning again!
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06 997 starter weirdness

Replace main positive line

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Performed · outcome unconfirmed · Original poster
He went down a rabbit hole and ended up replacing the main positive line from the battery to the starter/alt.
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06 997 starter weirdness

Reported and suspected causes (1)

These are separate views of the same evidence. Frequency alone does not establish a fix, and these counts must not be added together.

starter spinning, yet the solenoid bendix was not engaged/ing

No successful repair reported for this finding.

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Identified cause: 0
Suspected cause: 0
Reported fixes

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Discussions that report identifying a cause: 1

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Reported cause · Original poster
The noise turned out to be the starter spinning, yet the solenoid Bendix was not engaged/ing!
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06 997 starter weirdness

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Problem solved.
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POST 1 / ORIGINAL POSTEROriginal post

A friend with said 997, manual, was having intermittent no crank issues. Usually when hot. He went down a rabbit hole and ended up replacing the main positive line from the battery to the starter/alt. This seemed to help a bit but the car is very sparingly driven so hard to tell. Fast forward 6 months to last week when the car again refused to crank, but in the driveway. In addition to no crank, there seemed to be a fan noise coming from the engine bay, no key on or in the ignition. To keep the battery from draining it was disconnected, noise stopped. We pulled the starter and it bench tested fine as did the solenoid. We reinstalled the starter and as soon as the battery was reconnected, (no key in the ignition) the whirring noise returned. The noise turned out to be the starter spinning, yet the solenoid Bendix was not engaged/ing! Weird. As the starter relay checked out OK, this seemed to point to the ignition switch sending a signal to the solenoid. Somehow getting through the solenoid without engaging the Bendix and spinning the starter. So, we remove the ignition switch to swap it out. For information sake, we reconnect the battery, with ignition switch uninstalled and the starter beginning spinning again! Looking for the schematic for the car now but in the mean time and BTDTs? Thx Mike UPDATE, checked the relays and even with starter relay pulled, the starter is spinning. I think it must be picking up power downstream from the ignition switch and relay to the solenoid. Unfortubnately I can not find a scheamtic for that circuit to find the source of the non 12V+ wires to the starter.

POST 2 / ORIGINAL POSTEROriginal post

Despite bench testing OK, The solenoid had welded itself closed so the starter was being back fed from the Batt + cable each time we reconnected it. Problem solved.

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